Oats
Open source meeting notes that never leave your Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1244248
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Oats
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Meetings, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Description
Oats records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings entirely on your Mac. No bot joins your call, no audio leaves your machine, no account, no subscription. Live transcription with speaker labels, action items collected across meetings, a knowledge graph linking people, projects, and topics, and a Spotlight-style Ask popup. Pick your models: Apple Intelligence, Ollama, Whisper, or Parakeet. Notes are plain files on disk. Free and open source under Apache 2.0.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI voice recorders and meeting notetakers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- meeting notes app for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and local DB are vibe-codeable, but robust on-device meeting transcription requires system-level audio capture (loopback drivers) and local ML model orchestration.
What it would actually take: Requires a native macOS app (Swift/Objective-C) utilizing ScreenCaptureKit or virtual CoreAudio HAL drivers to capture multi-app audio without meeting bots. It requires bundling and optimizing quantized models like Whisper.cpp or MLX for local real-time ASR, along with speaker diarization models (e.g. pyannote converted to CoreML) and local LLM execution (llama.cpp) for graph summarization without thermal throttling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 174 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #107 of 175 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 279 days after the earliest competitor.
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